Both Uses
insufferable
in
The Fall of the House of Usher
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- I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.†
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- I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(insufferable) extremely unpleasant
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)